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| User: | cricket_egg (2978247) 臨, 兵, 闘, 者, 皆,陣, 列,在, 前
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| Name: | Aaron Alvarez | |||||
| Website: | www.newchallenger.net/blog | |||||
| Location: | Frederick, Maryland, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1982-07-18 | |||||
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| Bio: | pathological-techno-fetishist-with-social-deficit. The word otaku is derived from an honorific Japanese term for another's house or family (お宅, 御宅 otaku) that is also used as an honorific second-person pronoun (roughly equivalent to vos/usted in Spanish). The modern slang form, which is distinguished from the older usage by being written only in hiragana (おたく) or katakana (オタク) (or rarely rōmaji), appeared in the 1980s. It appears to have been coined by the humorist and essayist Akio Nakamori in his 1983 series An Investigation of Otaku (おたくの研究, Otaku no Kenkyū?), printed in the lolicon magazine Manga Burikko,[1] who observed that this form of address was unusually common among geeks and nerds. It was apparently a reference to someone who communicates with their equals using the distant and formal pronoun, and spends most of their time at home.[1] The term entered general use in Japan around 1989, and may have been popularized by Nakamori's publication in that year of The Age of M (Mの時代, M no Jidai?). It applied the term to the (then) recently caught serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, who turned out to be a recluse obsessed with pornographic anime and manga and who lived out his rape fantasies on young girls, thus attaching a huge taboo to a formerly innocuous term. The term was popularized in English speaking world in William Gibson's 1996 novel titled Idoru. In the book, there were several references about otaku, which was described as 'pathological-techno-fetishist-with-social-deficit': "Masahiko is seventeen," Mitsuko said. "He is a 'pathological-techno-fetishist-with-social-deficit,'" this last all strung together like one word, indicating a concept that taxed the lexicon of the ear-clips. Chia wondered briefly if it would be worth running it through her Sandbenders, whose translation functions updated automatically whenever she ported. "A what?" "Otaku," Mitsuko said carefully in Japanese. The translation burped its clumsy word string again. ... "The otaku guys at my last school were into, like, plastic anime babes, military simulations, and trivia. Bigtime into trivia." In 2001-4-1 edition of The Observer, William Gibson further explained his view on the term: The otaku, the passionate obsessive, the information age's embodiment of the connoisseur, more concerned with the accumulation of data than of objects, seems a natural crossover figure in today's interface of British and Japanese cultures. I see it in the eyes of the Portobello dealers, and in the eyes of the Japanese collectors: a perfectly calm train-spotter frenzy, murderous and sublime. Understanding otaku -hood, I think, is one of the keys to understanding the culture of the web. There is something profoundly post-national about it, extra-geographic. We are all curators, in the post-modern world, whether we want to be or not.[1] pathological-techno-fetishist-with-social-deficit. yeah, that's me. :/ | |||||
| Interests: | 109: akira, alec empire, anime, anime conventions, armitage, atari teenage riot, bemani, big eyes small mouth, breakbeats, breakdancing, caffeine, candy corn, cannibal ox, capsules, carl crack, chaos theory, chemicals, chow yun fat, circus peanuts, comics, company flow, cosplay, cowboy bebop, cyberpunk, ddr, dead or alive, death metal, defjux, del the funky homosapien, devil may cry, digital hardcore, dj premier, dreamcast, drug abuse, drum and bass, emceeing, evangelion, fighting games, gainax, galerians, gangstarr, geof darrow, ghost in the shell, giant robot, gorillaz, guilty gear, gungrave, halo, handsome boy modeling school, hanin elias, hayao miyazaki, hcfdm, hiphop, idm, jo chen, katsuhiro otomo, king of fighters, kittie, ko-gals, korn, lolita storm, lyricist lounge, macross, mad capsule markets, manga, marvel, masamune shirow, mcfarlane, mecha, metal, mindless self indulgence, minibosses, mos def, naruto, newtype, nic endo, ninja, ninja gaiden, ninjas, ninjitsu, osamu tezuka, pills, punk, ramen, range murata, red bull, retrogaming, rolling bomber special, rpgs, ryuhei kitamura, samurai champloo, sci-fi, sentai teams, shmups, shooters, slipknot, speed racer, substance abuse, taito, team ninja, tecmo, the matrix, the prodigy, tri-stat, versus, wizard, xbox, zombies, zuntata | |||||
| Schools: | Corcoran College of Art and Design - Washington, DC Montgomery College - Rockville - Rockville, MD School Without Walls High School - Washington, DC McKinley Technology High School - Washington, DC (1996 - 1997) Northwestern High School - Hyattsville, MD (1998 - 1999) | |||||
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